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Microsoft is one of the best-known companies in the world. Almost everyone uses a Microsoft product. Theseinclude the Windows operating systems, Hotmail and MSN, MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and the Bing searchengine. The Financial Times ranks it as the third largest company on the planet. It has created four billionaires and around 12,000 millionaires among its 93,000 employees. The company was founded by Bill Gates in 1975 and slowly became the number one name in computing. It generates over $50 billion a year in revenues. The company website outlines its values as follows: “As a company, and as individuals, we value integrity, honesty, openness, personal excellence, constructive self-criticism, continual self-improvement, and mutual respect.”

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文章解析

1.best-known 最有名的

例句：One of the best-known badges is Cooper.

库柏是最有名的汽车标牌之一LSOtdITet*Dr)93T。

2.self-criticism 自我批评

例句：His self-criticism was not made for show.

他的自我批评不是摆样子的0dmZ!v~Z&ITS。

3.self-improvement 自我改善

例句：Benjamin Franklin imbued in us the zeal to work and encouraged the inclination for self-improvement.

我们对工作的热情以及自我改善的倾向来自本杰明·富兰克林

4.operating system 操作系统

例句：The virus has infected the operating system of his computer.

病毒已使他的计算机操作系统受到传染n|P,f7ems);ELKZ。